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Why Do We Pay Our Plumbers More Than Our Caregivers?

Terrence McNally, Riane Eisler, AlterNet. June 27, 2007.
Surely leaky pipes aren't more important than our children. Yet, in America, most plumbers make five times what caregivers do. Author Riane Eisler shows how our economic system, rooted in gender inequality, is failing us. An excerpt from her latest book follows.

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